FLOYD KNOBS — Jeffersonville won its fourth straight Hoosier Hills Conference game Saturday night, topping host Floyd Central 59-40. 

JEFFERSONVILLE — Jeffersonville dominated its meet with visiting New Albany on Saturday and won both the girls' and boys' portions of the meet.

NORTH VERNON — The Floyd Central teams swept host Jennings County in a dual meet Saturday. 

NEW WASHINGTON — New Washington is off to a 3-0 start for the first time since the 2008-09 season after the Mustangs held off Rock Creek for a 69-64 victory Friday night.

AUSTIN — Another game, another last-second victory for Providence. 

MADISON — Nan Garcia's double-double help Jeffersonville escape Madison with a 50-46 Hoosier Hills Conference win Friday night. 

CLARKSVILLE — After his team’s loss to Floyd Central on Tuesday night, Clarksville coach Brian McEwen said Friday night’s foe, Silver Creek, was a "different animal." 

FLOYDS KNOBS — Floyd Central defeated Castle 66-62 Friday night on Joe Hinton Court for its 30th straight home victory. 

LANESVILLE – There’s been no shortage of competition in the all-time series between Southern Athletic Conference foes Borden and Lanesville.

On the strength of its second-place finish in the Hoosier Hills Conference, the Floyd Central football team had eight players earn league postseason honors.

CANNELTON — Christian Academy picked up its first victory of the season, clipping host Cannelton 45-32 Thursday night.

NEW ALBANY — In a dramatic finish, New Albany senior center Naria Reed grabbed a missed free throw with 1.1 seconds left, quickly threw in a 6-footer and was fouled at the buzzer. She hit the untimed game-winner in the Bulldogs' 48-47 overtime triumph over North Harrison at the Doghouse on T…

The Jeffersonville boys entered this season with state championship aspirations. 

Once again, Clark and Floyd counties will be well-represented in the NCAA Tournament.

FLOYDS KNOBS — Madison girls basketball continued its strong start to the new season Wednesday evening at Floyd Central.

Four big storylines to begin the 2019-20 wrestling season:

Editor’s note: This is the second part of our look at the top Southern Indiana hiking locations. Tuesday we looked at the sixth through 10th best locales. Today we explore the top five.

CHARLESTOWN — Demaria King scored a game-high 17 points to lead Charlestown to a 52-40 Mid-Southern Conference victory over visiting Austin on Wednesday night.

Kirby Overman, who guided New Albany to the boys’ basketball state title in 1973, has been elected to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.

CLARKSVILLE — Clarksville contained Floyd Central standout Jake Heidbreder for three quarters Tuesday night.

SELLERSBURG — Juniors Kooper Jacobi and Trey Kaufman combined for 48 points and 25 rebounds to lead Class 3A No. 1 Silver Creek to an 80-38 Mid-Southern Conference win over visiting Charlestown on Tuesday night. 

JEFFERSONVILLE — Jeffersonville split a dual meet with visiting Seymour on Tuesday night. 

BORDEN — Led by Taylor James, New Washington coasted to a 50-32 Southern Athletic Conference win at Borden on Tuesday night.

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The Silver Creek boys remained No. 4 in the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association Top 20 poll released Sunday night. The Dragons, the reigning Class 3A state champions, are behind a trio of 4A schools — No. 1 Lawrence Central, Bloomington South and Lawrence North — in the all-class poll. Si…

Remarkably, given the circumstances, everything seemed to be falling into place for the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium.

TELL CITY — The Ryan Miller Era got off to a dramatic, and successful, start Saturday night as Providence topped Tell City 45-42 on Nick Sexton's last-second 3-pointer in overtime. 

BORDEN — Freshman Tommy Devine led the way as Borden nearly fought back from a double-digit, third-quarter deficit, but the inability to score early and execute late proved the Braves undoing in a 59-50 loss to visiting Shoals on Saturday night.

BLOOMINGTON — Behind some sizzling shooting Bloomington South built an insurmountable halftime lead on the way to ending its lengthy losing streak to New Albany.

EVANSVILLE — Floyd Central didn't travel two hours to mess around. The Highlanders started fast and never looked back in dismantling Evansville Harrison, 67-47, Saturday night in the United Fidelity Bank River City High School Showcase at the University of Southern Indiana.

MASON, OHIO — Jeffersonville coach Chris Moore picked up a victory in his debut, but he needed some clutch plays by his Red Devils in the final minutes to thwart a frantic rally by Cincinnati Woodward. 

BEDFORD — Floyd Central swept a dual meet at Bedford North Lawrence on Saturday. 

This has been a difficult week for Sean Smith. 

AMHERST, Mass. — Sean East has always been a winner. He’s won at every level he’s played. Through eight games into his freshman season with the University of Massachusetts, East has seen that trend continue.

Some area teams got their seasons started earlier this week, but the ball really gets bouncing Saturday. 

The boys’ basketball season is officially underway and, based on the atmospheres at several local gymnasiums, local hoops fans are ready for what appears to be a special 2019-20 season. The preseason Associated Press poll released Wednesday has Jeffersonville at No. 8 in Class 4A and Silver …

RAMSEY — Class 3A No. 8 Silver Creek traveled to North Harrison on Wednesday night in search of its first win over the Lady Cats in seven years.

SELLERSBURG — Class 3A’s top-ranked team opened the 2019-20 season in convincing fashion Wednesday night.

NEW ALBANY — New Albany made 9 of 14 at the free-throw line in two overtime periods to pick up a 46-41 win against Eastern on Wednesday night.

JEFFERSONVILLE — Senior Jacob Jones signed his national letter of intent to play for Wisconsin-Green Bay and senior Tre Coleman announced he was signing with Nevada during signing day festivities earlier this month. 

NEW WASHINGTON — The first game of Tuesday night's Charlestown-New Washington doubleheader was decided in the final seconds. 

BORDEN — Borden's season is off to a good start after its 55-46 opening win over visiting Eastern on Tuesday.

HENRYVILLE — Host Henryville staved off a late rally by Rock Creek, capturing a 46-42 win in the season-opener for both Tuesday night at Furnish Gymnasium.